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<h1>Users and Groups</h1>

<p>An Ionize user can or not connect to the website and/or to the admin part of Ionize.<br />
Each user is in a group.<br />
Each group has a level which define its rights in Ionize.</p>

<p>Users and groups are securely stored in the database. The password of each user is strongly encrypted, make it uncrackable in case of database hack.</p>

<p>Groups are defined as follow.</p>


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	<td class="td"><strong>Super Admins</strong></td>
	<td class="td">10000</td>
	<td class="td">Users in this group have all rights in Ionize. The user created during installation is member of this group.</td>
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	<td class="td"><strong>Admins</strong></td>
	<td class="td">5000</td>
	<td class="td">Users in this group have all rights but no access to the Advanced settings panel (DB modification, thumbnail edition, extended fields activation / inactivation, etc.)</td>
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	<td class="td"><strong>Editors</strong></td>
	<td class="td">1000</td>
	<td class="td">Users in this group can edit all content but have no access to :
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			<li>Website settings,</li>
			<li>Users settings,</li>
			<li>Modules administration,</li>
			<li>Some module panel depending on the module's access restriction.</li>
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	<td class="td"><strong>Users</strong></td>
	<td class="td">100</td>
	<td class="td">This group has no access to Ionize, but can have access to restricted part of the website.</td>
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	<td class="td"><strong>Pending</strong></td>
	<td class="td">50</td>
	<td class="td">Contains users waiting for registration acceptation</td>
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	<td class="td"><strong>Guest</strong></td>
	<td class="td">10</td>
	<td class="td">Users not logged to the website have this level.</td>
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	<td class="td"><strong>Banned</strong></td>
	<td class="td">-10</td>
	<td class="td">Users in this group have no access to the website.</td>
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